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Alexander Stewart
1813-1904

Pioneer Pastor

by Elisabeth H. Stewart

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter from David S. Stewart  
Cover  
Title Page  
Cover and title page design  
Photographs 2
Introduction 5

Chart of Alexander Stewart's Ancestry, Descendants and Collateral Descendants

 6
     Descendants 7
     Collateral Descendants 11
     Sources 12
Acknowledgements 13
A Genealogical Detective Story 15
Background in Scotland 19
Red Sandy's Youth in Scotland: 1810s - 1820s 25
Emigration to Canada: 1832 36
Alexander's Half-Brothers and -Sisters in Fergus 38
Marriage: 1842 41
Ordination, 1851, and Ministry to the Pioneers 46
Death, and a New Field 58
The Six Nations Reserve: 1870s - 1880s 64
Marriage: 1872 70
Last Mission Field: Dwight, 1880s - 1890s 75
Last Years: 1890s - 1904 81
Memorials 89
Appendix: letters in his own handwriting  
Bibliography 90
Index 93

Illustrations

Esther Stratton Wilson, wife of. Alexander Stewart 2
Alexander Stewart in middle age 2
Alexander Stewart in old age 3
Alexander Stewart with half brothers and sisters 3
Family and friends in Dwight, 1895 4
Mortlach church and battle stone 18
Part of a Highland township 19

Balvenie Castle in Alexander Stewart's time

 22
Dufftown. Sketch by W. N. Hunter 27
Auchindown Castle. Sketch by W. N. Hunter 28
Mortlach Church between 1826 and 1876 29
Dufftown: Balvenie Street 30
Glenfiddich near Dufftown 30
Mortlach Parish, late 20th century 36
Durham Baptist Church 47
Alexander Stewart memorial window 47
Dwight Baptist Church before 1915 47
Alexander Stewart's home in Durham 57
From a program of the Stewart Memorial Church 74
The log cabin parsonage in 1889 77
Enlarged view of log cabin parsonage 77
The parsonage after a summer's work 77
Alexander Stewart and others on the verandah 77
Alderside, 1895 77
Dwight Baptist Church, 1895
Portrait that appeared with obituary 88
David S. Stewart transcribing from tombstone 92

Maps

Location of Mortlach Parish 20
Mortlach Parish map 23
Kirktown map 24
Ontario, Canada: places in Alexander Stewart's life 35
Counties in southern Ontario 39
Townships and county seats of Ontario 40
Durham, Ontario 48
Map of the Six Nations & New Credit Reserves 63
Village of Ohsweken 63
Dwight, Lake of Bays Township 74

Decorative graphics

Cover of print edition  
Title page of print edition  
Maple leaf and thistle design  

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